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Rurik
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synonyms: Riurik, Рюрик, Rørik ???
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Definition:[830 - 879]an early viking chieftain of northwestern Russia. A few Russian ships have been named in his honor.
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Whether he was uncomfortable that he, a descendant of Rurik*, Prince Oblonsky, had been kept for two hours waiting to see a Jew, or that for the first time in his life he was not following the example of his ancestors in serving the government, but was turning off into a new career, anyway he was very uncomfortable.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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"Elementary education when a man has nothing to read but the signs on public houses and sometimes books which he cannot understand-- such education has existed among us since the times of Rurik; Gogol's Petrushka has been reading for ever so long, yet as the village was in the days of Rurik so it has remained. [...] "
Anton Chekhov. The Darling and other stories
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In the ship Rurik, in this same region, at the same season of year, I have before met with similar though scarcely such furious storms. On the 2nd of March the tropical wind returned, and brought with it clearer weather. It was indeed very hot, (Reaumur's thermometer did not fall even in the night below 24,) but the whole crew continued in good health.
Otto von Kotzebue. A New Voyage Round the World in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26. Vol. 1
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